Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics
The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics works to improve methods for infectious disease modeling and statistical analysis, quantify disease and intervention impact, engage with policymakers to enhance decision-making, and train the next generation of scientists.
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20th Freeman-Seage Symposium on Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | 1:30 – 6:30pm | Kresge G3 and FXB Atrium
This event honors two renowned faculty members, Jonathan Freeman (pictured left) and George Seage (pictured right) for their leadership and contributions to the field of Infectious Disease Epidemiology. Please join us for an afternoon of presentations by students and postdocs on their ongoing research.
This event is open to the Harvard Longwood Community. Please register in advance at hsph.me/FreemanSeage by Friday, April 11.
About the Honorees
Jonathan Freeman (1930-2000)
Jonathan Freeman was a faculty member at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1990 until May 2000. He was instrumental in creating and leading the Interdisciplinary
Program in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (IPIDE). Freeman designed and taught courses on the investigation and transmission dynamics of infectious disease outbreaks, promoting an active interest in infectious disease epidemiology at a time when it was not widely popular. As a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, he practiced infectious disease medicine at Boston City Hospital (now Boston Medical Center), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the West Roxbury Veterans Affairs. Freeman was also an active member of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, where he taught a famously rigorous course on epidemiology principles for hospital epidemiologists. His research interests included hospital- acquired infections, tuberculosis, and malaria.
George R. Seage III (1957-2021)
George R. Seage III was a faculty member at Harvard School of Public Health from 1999 until his passing in 2021. He was a valued member of the Department Epidemiology and a leader in the field of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) research. He played a key role in the earliest efforts to understand HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), bringing epidemiologic skills and expertise to the the field.
Seage was passionate about and dedicated to mentoring the next generation of infectious disease epidemiologists. He contributed to establishing program to mentor early career investigators in the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS). He was also the co-principal investigator of a T32 graduate training program in infectious disease epidemiology and biodefense and served as the director of the IPIDE.